Can opinion evidence be relied upon in a medical malpractice case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Magee v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., 214 Cal.App.2d 340, 29 Cal.Rptr. 322 (Cal. App. 1963):
Without doubt this was a question upon which the ordinary man is unable to reach an informed conclusion and hence one upon which opinion evidence is desirable and competent. (People v. Cole, supra, 47 Cal.2d 99, 103-105, 301 P.2d 854, 56 A.L.R.2d 1435.)
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